By Emmanuel Antswen
The Benue State Government, on Tuesday, stated that 107 Yelwata victims were still receiving treatment at the State Teaching Hospital in Makurdi.
The Permanent Secretary of the Benue Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Mr James Iorpuu, disclosed this at a news briefing in Makurdi.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that suspected bandits attacked and killed over 100 people in Yelwata Community on June 13.
Iorpuu, who is also the Executive Secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), said that the state had witnessed sustained, coordinated fatal attacks since 2011 by bandits.
He prayed that what happened at Yelwata, which, he said, “had not happened anywhere in the world, should never happen again to any community”.
He commended his counterparts in Nasarawa and Plateau for coming to pay their condolences to the agency and state over the gruesome incident.
Earlier, the Executive Secretary of Plateau SEMA, Mr Sunday Abdu, and the Director-General of Nasarawa SEMA, Mr Ben Akwash, stated that they were in Benue on a solidarity visit.
Abdu said that they came to express their condolences to Benue SEMA and the people of the state over the Yelwata attack.
